In Stave Two Of A Christmas Carol By Charles Dickens

In Stave Two of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, the first of the three spirits arrived at Scrooges home and took him to his past life experiences. First the apparition took him to a mansion and in one door it “…disclosed a long, bare, melancholy room…a lonely boy was reading near a feeble fire: and Scrooge sat down upon a form, and wept to see his poor forgotten self as he had used to be”(635).Scrooge finally shows sadness and emotion but the emotion is toward himself when he was a boy.Then the phantom took him when he was older and when he was with little Fan then the Spector started talking about Fan “ ‘She died a woman,’ said the Ghost, ‘and had as I think, children.’ ‘One child,’ Scrooge returned. ‘True,’ said the Ghost. ‘Your nephew!’ Scrooge seemed uneasy in his mind, and answered briefly, ‘Yes.’(636).Scrooge loved little Fan and he can see the resemblance of Fan in his Nephew it is a tough subject to talk about with Scrooge. After that the phantom took Scrooge to where he was apprenticed and then Scrooge went to the party Fezziwig was holding and the apparition asked why do you pour out your hearts to Fezziwig he has just spent some mortal money “ ‘It isn’t that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil…The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune,’”(637). Scrooge knew Fezziwig was loved because of his money he was loved because of his personality he stood up for Fezziwig. Then the apparition brought him to his girlfriend but when he was late she had something to say to him “‘I release you. With a full heart, for the love of him you once were,’” (638).So she broke up with Scrooge because he has changed she felt that he loved money more than her so she left him. The ghost then took scrooge to his past lover’s house and he saw she had children and Scrooge said “What would I not have given to be one of them! Though I never could have been so rude, no, no! I